Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way 397
tripleevenfall writes with this excerpt from SFGate:
"The days of watching movies on the cheap via the Web may soon be over. Time Warner Cable and U.S. pay-TV companies are on the verge of instituting new fees on Web-access customers who use the most data. ... U.S. providers have weighed usage-based plans for years as a way to squeeze more profit from Web access, and to counter slowing growth and rising program costs in the TV business. While customer complaints hampered earlier attempts, pay-TV companies are testing usage caps and price structures that point to the advent of permanent fees. ... Cable's best option is to find ways to profit from the online shift, said [analyst Craig Moffett]. If the companies were to lose all of their video customers, the revenue decline would be more than offset by lower programming fees and set-top box spending. 'In the end, it will be the best thing that ever happened to the cable industry,' Moffett said."
Re:Needs to stop (Score:5, Funny)
If they go to usage based billing and I need to make a financial choice between internet and cable, the decision for me is an easy one.
Steal your neighbor's wifi?
Re:Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
draw a line there and knock off $10
Hahaha, that's a good one. (wipes single tear from eye)
Re:Municipal broadband is on its way, then (Score:5, Funny)
I'd have found a brave, attractive woman to just show her tits at the meeting and say, "There you go, you've all seen tits. Now let's move on and get some free internet."
Re:Municipal broadband is on its way, then (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Needs to stop (Score:3, Funny)
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wifi.